Plot

A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is recorded on audio and video tape, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.

Comments

Suspenseful and ahead of its time, but pointless What to say but that the point of the movie (your privacy is virtually non-existent, à la "Enemy of the State" and "The Conversation") seems to be wasted, that in spite of a breathless suspense to the end. The tapes made by different parties appear, in the scope of the film, to lose any kind of meaning or focus at the end (besides the fact that the robbery is compromised by ham radio and that Anderson is caught because of the basement tapes), the rest are wasted, physically, and narratively. The music, relevant to the time period, don't match the action most of the time. I usually snob remake, but I wonder what kind of film one could make today, from this movie... That's probably why remake exist...